Chapter 3: Infant Cognition

Question 1

Scheme

Answer 1

Specific, readily labelable class of sensorimotor action sequences that the infant readily and habitually carries out, normally in response to particular classes of objects or situations

Question 2

A-not-B Search Error

Answer 2

Infant will continue to search at location A even when the child saw the researcher hide the object at location B. This may be because searching requires more representation than looking.

Question 3

Object Permanence

Answer 3

The understanding that objects coexist as physically distinct and independent entities within a common space.

Question 4

Deferred Imitation

Answer 4

Actions witnessed but not imitated on a given occasion are spontaneously reproduced in full detail at a later time

Question 5

An older person _____ a given object as an instance of the class.

Answer 5

Represents

Question 6

_____ is a symbolic activity, and is made possible by the capacity for representational functioning.

Answer 6

Language

Question 7

Representational persistence

Answer 7

A persisting representation of an object that is set up by a brief perceptual encounter with it

Question 8

Violation of Expectation

Answer 8

Compare response to two events, one possible and one impossible.
Show surprise to impossible event
Adaptation of the habituation-dishabituation paradigm

Question 9

Ancillary Deficit Hypothesis

Answer 9

Babies lack ancillary skill or skills that must be added to the knowledge to make search possible

Question 10

Methods to determine how infants categorize:

Answer 10

Habituation-dishabituation
Operant conditioning
Sequential touching
Inductive inference

Question 11

Symbolic representational thought

Answer 11

Capacity to represent and act upon the world through the use of mental symbols